Northwest EC Roundtable
EC Roundtable

Thursday, May 26th,  2005
1:00 to 3:30 PM
@
T.A. Wilson Conference Center
Boeing Customer Service Center

1:00 - 1:30 Networking
Refreshments provided by our sponsors.

1:30 - 1:40 Administrative Business
Conducted by Matt Mulligan, President NW E-Commerce Roundtable

1:40 to 3:10 Program

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an enabling technology that is gaining a strong momentum in the business world driven by mandates from early adopters such as Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense. The technology offers huge possibilities for businesses to turn real-time data into actionable information, streamline their processes and gain efficiencies. In addition, it is creating enormous new non-traditional applications such as Electronic Tolls or Cattle Tracking. The top learning objectives for this meeting will be to look at case studies that demonstrate successful RFID projects and understand some possible paths to RFID adoption for your company.

Speaker 1:

Alok Ahuja
Sr. Product Manager, RFID
BPI Marketing Team
Microsoft Corporation

"Radio Frequency Identification" Presentation (ppt)

Speaker 2:

Roger L. Linnell
Managing Partner
PRUDENTIA Consulting

"Building the RFID Business Case" Presentation (pdf)

Biographies:
Alok Ahuja is a Senior Product Manager for RFID Platform at Microsoft Corporation. In his role, Alok is responsible for bringing to market RFID software solutions. Alok has wealth of experience in the business world and has over 15 years of IT and Business Management experience working for large corporations such as IBM, Nortel and AT&T and providing business consulting to fortune 500 companies. Alok holds an MBA from the University of Toronto and has an undergraduate degree in Engineering.

3:10 to 3:30 Questions & Networking